More than a dozen people were baptized into Christ in Haiti on the day after Christmas. The joyous event was the latest in a year full of Baptisms. “We are glad to baptize 13 new members today at the end of this year. May God bless them all and help them out with their wise…

The newly-built Church of St. Stephen in the Tanzanian village of Karama celebrated its first patronal feast day in a very special way. In addition to the Divine Liturgy for the feast of the Protomartyr, 51 people were united to Christ in Holy Baptism, reports the Friends of the Bukoba Mission in Tanzania. A month…

Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Australia, Makarios expressed his delight over the successful ‘Christmas Kalanda 2021’ event that took place at the Axion Esti monastery in Northcote, Victoria. The celebratory happening virtually brought together Athens, Greece with Melbourne through music and tradition on Thursday 23 December. In collaboration with acclaimed composer Tasos Ioannides, Spyros Lambrou’s children’s…

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On the second day of Christmas, on the feast of the Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church visited and consecrated a Church daycare center in southeastern Romania. The St. Stelian Children’s Day Center in Urlați was initially inaugurated by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel in 2013. It was blessed…

Bucharest’s “Holy Empress Helen” Counselling and Information Centre will sponsor participation in the next Heartbeat International Conference for a Romanian pro-life worker. The sponsorship will be awarded to a Romanian who can convince Santa Claus that he or she has a serious intention to support women in pregnancy crisis. “If you really want this sponsorship,…

A Christmas celebration was organized this past week in the Syrian capital of Damascus by a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Municipality of Moscow and a federation of Russian military veterans. With the blessing of the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, children from the Sunday school Marya-MI-yah…

One hundred care packages were distributed to local residents in need over the past week by the Albanian Church’s Metropolis of Elbasan. The initiative is one of many charitable activities by local metropolises and parishes of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, especially ahead and during religious holidays.

One-hundred-and-ninety residents of two shelters run by the Archdiocese of Alexandroupolis, in extreme northeast Greece, were hosted as guests by Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou for the presidency’s annual Christmas dinner.